Reframing AI Through Art, Design, and Cross-Cultural Imagination
From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Wisdom is a joint print and digital collaboration between Leonardo Journal and ZHUANGSHI. The issue examines how artificial intelligence can function not only as a technical instrument but also as a collaborator in processes of creativity, ethics, cultural imagination, and collective futures.
At a moment when AI saturates global discourse, this issue asks:
- What forms of wisdom emerge when artists, designers, technologists, and humanists critically and creatively engage AI?
- Whose values, worldviews, and cultural frameworks are embedded in these systems?
- How might cross-cultural dialogue expand the possibilities of technological meaning-making?
通过艺术、设计与跨文化想象重新思考人工智能
《从人工智能到增强智慧》是 《列奥纳多》 与 《装饰》杂志的联合出版项目。本特刊探讨了人工智能如何不仅作为技术工具，也能够在创造力、伦理、文化想象和共同未来中成为协作者的议题。
在人工智能占据全球讨论的当下，本特刊提出了以下问题：
- 当艺术家、设计师、技术人员与人文学者以批判性与创造性的方式介入人工智能时，会生成哪些新的智慧？
- 这些系统中究竟嵌入了谁的价值、世界观与文化框架？
- 跨文化对话如何拓展技术生成意义的可能性？
An Experimental Approach to Publishing
This special issue also serves as an experiment in publication design. It is presented as a hybrid, evolving platform in which texts, images, and interactive components operate together. The site includes a conversational AI companion, a generated image gallery, and bilingual content.
Through this structure, the issue tests a core proposition: rethinking tools requires rethinking formats, authorship, and the circulation of knowledge.
Accordingly, From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Wisdom is both a publication about AI and one shaped through experimental engagements with AI, design, and collective editorial practice.
出版方式的实验
本特刊同时也是一次出版实验，以一种 混合、动态的出版形式 呈现，让文本、图像与交互元素共同运作。网站包含对话式人工智能、生成的在线图像画廊以及中英文双语内容。
这一结构测试了一个核心命题：重新思考工具意味着重新思考出版形式、作者性以及知识的传播方式。
因此，《从人工智能到增强智慧》既是一份 关于 人工智能的出版物，也是一份 通过 与人工智能、设计和集体编辑实践的实验而形成的出版物。
About the Images
For this issue’s images, we explored how language, cultural context, and AI training data shape machine-generated representations of the same ideas. We fed each article’s English and Simplified Chinese abstracts into DeepSeek to generate paired image prompts, then asked Midjourney to visualize those prompts.
Placed together, these bilingual prompts and resulting images reveal how AI systems interpret identical concepts differently depending on linguistic and cultural inputs—a contemporary telephone game for the algorithmic age.
关于图像
在本特刊的图像实验中，我们探讨了 语言、文化语境 与 AI 训练数据 如何影响机器对同一概念的图像生成。我们将每篇文章的英文与简体中文摘要输入 DeepSeek 生成两组提示词，然后将这些提示词交给 Midjourney 进行可视化。
当这些图像并置呈现时，可以看出人工智能系统如何因语言与文化输入的不同而生成差异化的视觉逻辑一场属于算法时代的当代“传话游戏”。
Why This Issue, and Why Now
As AI systems proliferate—from generative models to algorithmic infrastructures—public discourse often narrows to questions of efficiency, scale, and disruption. Leonardo and ZHUANGSHI approach this moment from a different vantage point.
Both journals have longstanding commitments to examining how tools shape creative practice and cultural understanding. This issue continues that tradition by asking not only what AI can do but what AI should do, and how humans might engage such systems with care, depth, and responsibility.
By linking design and art communities across linguistic and cultural contexts, the issue underscores that the future of AI is necessarily plural and best approached through shared inquiry.
为何推出此特刊、为何在此刻
随着人工智能系统的广泛应用—从生成式模型到算法基础设施—公共讨论常常被效率、规模与颠覆性的议题所主导。《列奥纳多》与《装饰》选择从不同的角度介入这一时刻。
两本期刊长期关注工具如何塑造创作实践与文化理解。本特刊延续了这一传统，提出的问题不仅是 AI 能做什么，更是 AI 应该做什么，以及 人类应如何以关怀、深度与责任心来与之共处。
通过连接跨语言、跨文化的设计与艺术社群，本特刊强调人工智能的未来不是单一的或普世的，而是多元的一并应通过共同探究来理解。
How to Explore the Issue
AI Chat Companion
A conversational AI trained on the issue’s materials enables readers to pose questions, trace thematic links, and explore interpretive pathways.
Image Gallery
Paired images generated from bilingual prompts reveal how linguistic and cultural variation shapes AI-driven visual interpretation.
Articles and Essays
The issue includes peer-reviewed research articles, essays, interviews, and speculative writing.
MIT Press Access
Full versions of all scholarly articles are available through MIT Press for citation and further study.
如何探索本特刊
对话式 AI
基于特刊内容训练的对话式人工智能，帮助读者提出问题、追踪主题关联并探索解释路径。
图像画廊
由中英文提示词分别生成的图像对比展示语言与文化差异如何影响 AI 的视觉生成。
文章与论文
本特刊收录同行评审论文、随笔、访谈与推想写作。
MIT Press 获取全文
所有学术文章均可通过 MIT Press 获取，以供深入研究与引用。
Who This Issue Is For
The issue speaks to artists, designers, technologists, researchers, educators, students, policymakers, and readers interested in the evolving relationships among AI, creativity, culture, and society.
适合谁阅读
本特刊面向艺术家、设计师、技术人员、研究者、教育工作者、学生、政策制定者，以及所有关注人工智能、创造力、文化与社会关系的读者。
About the Collaboration
This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to interdisciplinary experimentation, cross-cultural dialogue, and the conviction that navigating the age of AI requires imagination, responsibility, and wisdom.
Further reading: https://leonardo.info/blog/2023/04/18/world-of-creativity
关于此次合作
本特刊体现了双方对跨学科实验、跨文化对话的共同承诺，以及在人工智能时代以想象力、责任与智慧来前行的信念。
如需了解更多，请登陆：
https://leonardo.info/blog/2023/04/18/world-of-creativity
Credits
致谢
Editorial Advisory Board
Diana Ayton-Shenker: Chief Executive Officer, Leonardo/ISAST; Executive Director, ASU-Leonardo Initiative; ASU Professor of Practice, The School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The School of Arts, Media, & Engineering.
Marc Hebert: Board Chair, Leonardo/ISAST; Chief Operating Officer, Estuate.
Gordon Knox: Board Member and Curator, Leonardo/ISAST; President, SFAI.
Dr. Roger Malina: Professor of Art and Technology and Professor of Physics, UT Dallas.
Professor Wu Qiong: Dean, The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Deputy Dean of Tsinghua - Tsingshang Joint Institute for Smart Scene Innovation Design
Termeh Rassi: Chief Strategic Officer and Editorial Director, Leonardo.
Joel Slayton: Board Member, Leonardo/ISAST; Artist + Curator, L&J Ranch.
Professor / Dr. Fang Xiaofeng: Editor-in-Chief, ZHUANGSHI; Vice Dean, the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.
编辑顾问委员会
戴安娜·艾顿-申克：《列奥纳多》／ISAST（国际艺术、科学、技术协会）首席执行官兼总裁；亚利桑那州立大学—《列奥纳多》倡议项目的执行董事；亚利桑那州立大学实践教授。
马克·赫伯特：《列奥纳多》／ISAST（国际艺术、科学、技术协会）董事会主席；全球信息技术服务公司 Estuate 首席运营官。
戈登·诺克斯：《列奥纳多》／ISAST 董事会成员、策展人；旧金山艺术学院院长。
罗杰·马利纳博士：德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校艺术与技术教授、物理学教授。
吴琼教授/博士：清华大学美术学院院长；清华清尚智慧场景创新设计研究院副院长。
特梅·拉西：《列奥纳多》首席战略官，编辑总监。
乔尔·斯莱顿：《列奥纳多》／ISAST（国际艺术、科学、技术协会）董事会成员；L&J Ranch 艺术家兼策展人。
方晓风教授/博士：《装饰》主编；清华大学美术学院副院长。
Special Issue Team
Editorial
Nick Cronbach: Editor.
Ashlin Holbrook: Editor.
Termeh Rassi: Editorial direction, microsite conception and design.
John Trujillo: Lead editor, microsite conception and design.
Yun Wang: Editorial Project Management.
Microsite Technical Development
Maya Hilbert: Microsite design and development.
Jason Lam: Microsite project management.
Rowan Martnishn: Large Language Model Engineer.
Print Journal Design and Production
Zhang Jinrong: Office Director, ZHUANGSHI.
Professor Chen Nan: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Visual Communication, the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University.
Dr. Zhou Zhi: Editorial direction, Zhuangshi Journal.
Translation Reviewers
Dr. Rem RunGu Lin: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
Aven-Le Zhou: Assistant Professor of Design, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
特刊团队
编辑团队
尼克·克伦巴赫：编辑。
阿什琳·霍尔布鲁克：编辑。
特梅·拉西：编辑指导，微型网站构思与设计。
约翰·特鲁希略：责任编辑；微网站构思与设计。
汪芸：编辑项目管理。
微型网站技术开发
玛雅·希尔伯特：微型网站设计与开发。
林家亮：微网站项目管理。
罗文·马特尼什：大语言模型工程师。
印刷期刊的设计与制作
张金荣：《装饰》杂志社办公室主任。
陈楠教授：清华大学美术学院视觉传达系教授、博士生导师。
周志博士：《装饰》杂志编辑部主任。
翻译审校
林润古博士：香港科技大学（广州）。
周乐：西安交通大学-利物浦大学设计学助理教授 。